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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






2. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






3. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






4. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






5. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






6. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






7. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






8. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






9. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






10. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






12. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






13. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






14. Multisensory Structured Language Education






15. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






16. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






17. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






18. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






19. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






21. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






22. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






23. English as a second language






24. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






25. State Board of Eduation






26. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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27. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






28. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






29. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






30. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






31. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






32. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






33. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






34. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






35. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






36. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






37. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






38. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






39. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






40. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






41. Feeling through fingertips






42. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






43. Whole body learning






44. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






45. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






46. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






47. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






48. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






49. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






50. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl